NIGERIA FG Awards N14 Billion Contract For Deplorable Nyanya Labour Camp

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a contract of N14billion for the engineering infrastructure for Gidan Daya Urban Renewal Site, Nyanya, Abuja.

 The contract which has a completion period of 36 months, will enable those living in the Nyanya labour camp to be relocated to the Gidan Diya Area of Kurudu District of the Federal Capital Territory.

 Briefing journalists after the weekly Council meeting which was chaired by Vice President Namadi Sambo, the Minister of information, Labaran Maku alongside the minister of state, Olajumoke Akinjide, said the new camp will house 8,064 flats.

Giving a background of the the bit of project Akinjide said  the Nyanya labour camp was built as a temporary labour camp 30 years ago when the FCT was being built.

 "It housed the labour eras who worked to build this great city of abuja and after that, the houses were sold to the junior workers ninths ministries to some students and security personnel. However, upon review, the FCTA found that the Nyanya labour camp is very over crowded, the houses dilapidated, with poor sanitary conditions, inadequate social amenities and minimal infrastructure" she said.

 She added that "In-fact the UN Habitat declared the Nyanya labour camp as unfit for human habitation, as a result as a responsible administration, we felt it is not right for us to leave our citizens in such a condition, hence the relocation of the residents of Nyanya labour to the Gidan Daya Site in Kurudu  District".

The relocation site is 152 hectares along the Jikwoyi-Karshi road, with 7000, families in the Nyanya labour camp to be relocated.

 The minister also said the contract will include the provision of roads, electricity, water supply, drainages sewage system adding that support facilities planned for the site will include schools, markets police station primary healthcare facilities, fire station and everything that is needed to have a viable community.

  The expected population to occupy the new site when fully relocated is about 50,000 inhabitants. 

 "Not only will we relocate the current residents of Nyanya labour camp but we will Aldo be able to accommodate some new residents in the Gidan Daya, and all those who are already living in Gidan Daya will benefit from the enhanced infrastructure, that us coming into the area" she explained.

 Akinjide said the project is in keeping with the President's directives that there should be equitable distribution of infrastructure and social amenities throughout the territory, that this territory is not only for the city dwellers but for everybody. She added that it will generate employment opportunities for at least 25 professionals, 40 technicians and at least 800 unskilled labourers.

 Responding to questions from journalists on compensation for those who already bought the houses at the Nyanya Labour Camp, Akinjide said those who already pod fully for their houses will be provided with alternative houses.

 "As we said, the houses have been declared by the UN Habibat Ad unfit for human habitation and the surrounding communities are inadequate . So this us the first stage of the two-stage process. We first need to put in infrastructure in the chosen site at Gidan Daya. We are going to put standard infrastructure in accordance with the standards of the FCT A for the satellite towns. After that, we will then build houses amounting to 8,054 flats, which will be developed. We have funding for that given to us by the African Development Bank, we are currently undergoing the processes for the procurement of that facility, that is why this memo is simply for the first stage, the infrastructure. 

To make it clear, we will not relocate anybody until the houses have been built and completed and those who have fully paid will be allocated their houses. Those who have not fully laid will probably wait until they complete the payment before they get the houses. Even those who have not paid anything will be given the rights of first refusal and thus will be given an allocation and be given the opportunity to purchase their houses in the relocation site" she said. 

 

After the relocation, Akinjide noted that the old camp site will undergo urban renewal and will be  available for use by the FCT in accordance with the land use act that will be developed.